On Wednesday, Zoom said it planned to launch end-to-end encryption (E2EE) capabilities from next week. E2EE will let the company’s users create individual encryption keys that will be used to encode voice or video calls between them and other conference members. These keys will be stored locally and will not Continue Reading
Technology giant Microsoft has released its monthly set of security fixes known as Patch Tuesday, and in October the OS maker has fixed 87 flaws across an extensive range of Microsoft products. So far, the most hazardous bug fixed this month is CVE-2020-16898. Labeled as a remote code execution (RCE) Continue Reading
An alliance of technology companies announced on Monday that it had orchestrated a takedown of the TrickBot malware botnet. The organizations that took part in the takedown included Microsoft’s Defender team, FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, NTT, and Broadcom’s cyber-security division Symantec. Prior to the takedown were probes from Continue Reading
The “Five Eyes” alliance along with government representatives for India and Japan, have demanded that technology companies insert “backdoors” in encrypted apps to give LEAs the access they say needed to police online delinquency. In a statement, the officials of the US, India, Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Japan said that Continue Reading
This week, the United States announced that it captured as many as 92 domain names that an Iran-linked rival was leveraging in a worldwide propaganda drive. It said that four of the domains appeared to be authentic news outlets, but they were controlled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Continue Reading
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